Commercial and Institutional Consumption of Energy Survey (CICES), December 2005

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Appendix A
Classification of commercial and institutional establishments

For the purposes of the survey, the establishments are classified in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

WHOLESALE TRADE AND WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE (NAICS 41 and 493)

• Farm product wholesaler-distributors; petroleum product wholesaler-distributors; food, beverage and tobacco wholesaler-distributors; personal and household goods wholesaler-distributors; motor vehicle and parts wholesaler-distributors; building material and supplies wholesaler-distributors; machinery, equipment and supplies wholesaler-distributors; miscellaneous wholesaler-distributors; wholesale agents and brokers.
  
  
• Warehousing and storage.

RETAIL TRADE (NAICS 44-45)

Food retail (NAICS 445)

• Grocery stores; specialty food stores; beer, wine and liquor stores.

Non-food retail (NAICS 441 to 444; 446 to 454)

• Motor vehicle and parts dealers; furniture and home furnishings stores; electronics and appliance stores; building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers; health and personal care stores.

INFORMATION AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES (NAICS 51)

• Publishing industries (except Internet); motion picture and sound recording industries; broadcasting (except Internet); Internet publishing and broadcasting; telecommunications; Internet service providers, Web search portals, and data processing services; other information services.

OFFICE SECTOR (NAICS 52, 53, 54, 91)

Finance and insurance (NAICS 52)

• Monetary authorities – central bank; credit intermediation and related activities; securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investment and related activities; insurance carriers and related activities; funds and other financial vehicles.

Real estate and rental and leasing (NAICS 53)

• Real estate; rental and leasing services; lessors of non-financial intangible assets (except copyrighted works).

Professional, scientific and technical services (NAICS 54)

• Legal services; accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services; architectural, engineering and related services; specialized design services; computer systems design and related services; management, scientific and technical consulting services; scientific research and development services; advertising and related services; other professional, scientific and technical services.

Public administration (NAICS 91)

• Federal government public administration; provincial and territorial public administration; local, municipal and regional public administration; Aboriginal public administration.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (NAICS 61)

Elementary and secondary schools (NAICS 6111)

Community colleges and cégeps (NAICS 6112)

Universities (NAICS 6113)

HEALTH CARE (NAICS 62)

Non-hospital health care (NAICS 621, 623, 624)

• Offices of physicians; offices of dentists; offices of other health practitioners; out-patient care centres; medical and diagnostic laboratories; home health care services; other ambulatory health care services; nursing care facilities; residential developmental handicap, mental health and substance abuse facilities; community care facilities for the elderly; other residential care facilities; individual and family services; community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services; vocational rehabilitation services; child day-care services.

Hospitals (NAICS 622)

• General medical and surgical hospitals; psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals; specialty hospitals (except psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals).

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES (NAICS 72)

• Traveller accommodation; (recreational vehicle) parks and recreational camps; rooming and boarding houses.
  
  
• Full-service restaurants; limited-service eating facilities; special food services; drinking establishments (alcohol).

OTHER (NAICS 71, 81)

• Performing arts, spectator sports and related industries; heritage institutions; amusement, gambling and recreation industries.
  
  
• Repair and maintenance; personal and laundry services; religious organizations, foundations, citizens groups and professional and similar organizations; private households.